Capitalizing on the growth of Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS), the company is extending the application breadth and platform depth of the solution. Among the HCS upgrades and new technologies, targeted for global availability in Q4 2012, Cisco has included:

• Extending TelePresence capabilities in HCS with TelePresence so partners can offer customers a "static bridge" service option, also known as "rendezvous conferencing," that allows them to conduct TelePresence meetings at any time, versus having to make a meeting reservation.

• Maximizing ROI for Partners by integrating the Cisco TelePresence Exchange (CTX) into HCS. By expanding the reach of TelePresence, the CTX integration also enables customers' connections at multiple locations (including to external vendors and suppliers) at the same time.

•Cisco is extending many of the latest Cisco UC capabilities announced earlier this summer to the cloud via HCS.

Cisco also unveiled a premises-based WebEx Meetings Server, designed for organizations that need a fully "on-premises" conferencing solution housed in their own data centers. According to the company's announcement, the public Cisco WebEx cloud has seen a 38% increase year over year and many customers have for a private cloud solution that provides the same level of collaboration capabilities.